GUILLERMO ARANDA-MENA

I am turning L.  August 2023 will be an exciting Birthday. For this I am preparing an art exhibition (ink+watercolors) encapsulating where I have lived or meaningful places where I spent time over the last 50 years of my existence. For this I selected 50 locations across 5 continents and thus the title Voyage 50505. I am a Mexican architect and an academic. I was born in the former capital of the Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan, today Mexico City some 50 years ago. By the age of 6 my parents decided to move out of the big metropolis into a house my father designed and built in his hometown, San Luis Potosi, a colonial mid-size city in the center of Mexico. My mother found the town too small and lacked the cosmopolitan life that Mexico city offered. By 1982 they were done with the provincial life and decided to return to the big smog, this time in Guadalajara, in the west of Mexico. "La perla de occidente" is a beautiful city founded on the 14 of February or 1542. I consider myself...

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 SG 2022 Myth or reality? Reflections on readings from Jacques Desrrida while sketching Singapore’s most sustainable buildings: “ The study of myths raises a methodological problem, in that ti cannot be carried out according to the Cartesian principles of breaking down the difficultly into as many parts as may be necessary for finding the solution. There is no real end to methodological analysis, no hidden unity to grasped once the breaking-down process has been completed. Themes can be split up ad infinitud. Just when you think you have disentangled and separated them, you realize that they are knitting together again in response to the operation of unexpected affinities. Consequently the unity of the myth is never more than tendencial and protective and cannot reflect a state or a particular moment of the myth. It is a phenomenon of the imagination resulting from the attempt at inter parea timón; and its function is to endow the myth with synthetic from and to prevent its disinte...

...and a red typos. Finding my usual spaces in the midst of global pandemics.... for real or for virtual.   Is nature regaining terrain over Covid 19? Is this a virtual escapist attempt to the places I used to travel to on a regular basis?   Places in Melbourne such as City Business District, Melbourne Botanical Gardens, Castlemain, Phillip Island, Singapore, Hong Kong, Mantova, Milan, Mexico  (early days of our longest lock down ever: - Lockdown 1: Tuesday 31st March 2020 to Tuesday 12th May 2020. A total of 43 calendar days. - Lockdown 2: Thursday 9th July 2020 to Tuesday 27th October 2020. A total of 111 calendar days. - Lockdown 3: Saturday 13th February 2021 to Wednesday 17th February 2021. A total of 5 calendar days. - Lockdown 4: Friday 28th May 2021 to Thursday 10th June 2021. A total of 14 calendar days. - Lockdown 5: Friday 16th July 2021 to Tuesday 27th July 2021. A total of 12 calendar days.).  ...